{"product_id":"biotechnology-in-development-9789086860708","title":"Biotechnology in development","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe past few decades have seen an impassioned scientific and social debate on the pro and cons of biotechnology. This book questions the primacy of this pro\/anti debate and points out the possibility of going beyond it to a 'third way': tailor-made biotechnology.\n\u003cbr\u003eThe book describes the emergence of new power relations within global food chains. However, power is not only seen as a system of dominance, but also as a force driving the development of change strategies. Therefore, technologies are not seen as a fate (to be accepted or rejected), but as a challenge to political creativity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book also contains a DVD with four documentaries in which concrete efforts of civil society organizations are filmed to re-invent biotechnology. In different contexts such as farmers' fields schools in India, urban agriculture in Cuba, participatory plant-breeding in Ecuador and food networks in Ghana, it is shown how biotechnology is re-made from a social perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis pro-poor and empowering biotechnology may be an alternative for the exploiting and industrial biotechnology of multinational corporations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Guido Ruivenkamp","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48307902382331,"sku":"9789086860708","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/biotechnology-in-development-9789086860708","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}